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How Alaska's ZIP codes measure up on health

The ZipVitals Score across Alaska — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up to the state by resident population.

Data release 2026211 of 237 ZIP codes scored · 0.71M residents represented

Open the full ranking →Download the data (CSV)How the Score works

Score snapshot

51.67Statewide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
36.23Median scoremiddle of 211 scored ZIPs
62.84Highest score99775 · Fairbanks
16.00Lowest score99578 · Eek
46.83Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#34State rankof 51 states and equivalents with a computed score
49%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.35M of 0.71M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.50MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs71% of the state
0.03MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs4% of the state
0ZIPs in the national top 100—

Alaska's ZIP codes, ranked

Highest-scoring

Top 50 of 211
  1. 199775in Fairbanks · 826 residents62.84
  2. 299540in Indian · 468 residents62.76
  3. 399516in Anchorage · 21,500 residents62.76
  4. 499587in Girdwood · 1,949 residents62.50
  5. 599577in Eagle River · 28,477 residents61.84
  6. 699572in Cooper Landing · 241 residents61.67
  7. 799923in Hyder · 24 residents60.63
  8. 899631in Moose Pass · 222 residents60.04
  9. 999567in Chugiak · 6,452 residents59.71
  10. 1099605in Hope · 23 residents58.92
  11. 1199824in Douglas · 2,190 residents58.89
  12. 1299801in Juneau · 29,588 residents58.56
  13. 1399712in Fairbanks · 12,477 residents58.54
  14. 1499519in Anchorage · 1,297 residents58.42
  15. 1599835in Sitka · 8,368 residents58.05
  16. 1699615in Kodiak · 12,194 residents57.97
  17. 1799692in Dutch Harbor · 809 residents57.61
  18. 1899505in Jber · 5,015 residents57.49
  19. 1999507in Anchorage · 37,301 residents57.25
  20. 2099703in Fairbanks · 8,304 residents56.46
  21. 2199664in Seward · 4,698 residents56.28
  22. 2299734in Prudhoe Bay · 1,203 residents56.22
  23. 2399603in Homer · 11,693 residents55.69
  24. 2499517in Anchorage · 16,486 residents55.58
  25. 2599743in Healy · 652 residents55.56
  26. 2699645in Palmer · 32,103 residents55.51
  27. 2799502in Anchorage · 25,006 residents55.13
  28. 2899709in Fairbanks · 29,551 residents55.10
  29. 2999827in Haines · 2,168 residents55.04
  30. 3099515in Anchorage · 21,870 residents54.74
  31. 3199506in Jber · 7,028 residents54.70
  32. 3299574in Cordova · 2,551 residents54.51
  33. 3399672in Sterling · 4,091 residents54.49
  34. 3499840in Skagway · 1,244 residents54.48
  35. 3599833in Petersburg · 3,409 residents54.33
  36. 3699901in Ketchikan · 13,768 residents54.27
  37. 3799744in Anderson · 120 residents54.05
  38. 3899685in Unalaska · 3,747 residents53.79
  39. 3999504in Anchorage · 42,093 residents53.17
  40. 4099669in Soldotna · 15,395 residents53.05
  41. 4199654in Wasilla · 44,647 residents52.97
  42. 4299686in Valdez · 3,862 residents52.48
  43. 4399518in Anchorage · 9,764 residents52.38
  44. 4499693in Whittier · 429 residents52.19
  45. 4599755in Denali National Park · 987 residents51.60
  46. 4699737in Delta Junction · 4,774 residents50.95
  47. 4799714in Salcha · 1,106 residents50.59
  48. 4899611in Kenai · 16,510 residents50.06
  49. 4999553in Akutan · 694 residents49.79
  50. 5099929in Wrangell · 2,087 residents49.39
Open the full Alaska ranking →One page, all 211 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

What the distribution shows

Across Alaska’s 237 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 211 of them carry enough measured coverage across all nine health domains to enter the population-weighted composite above; the rest are held out rather than filled from a coarser geography.

Assembled from the same ZIP-level data as every per-ZIP page. Read the full method →

Where Alaska stands, domain by domain

The ZipVitals Score above combines nine domains of health into one number. This is where Alaska's ZIP codes sit against ZIP codes across the country on each of them, weighted by how many residents live in each one — strongest at the top.

Strongest domain

Chronic Disease Burden · 75th

Weighted by residents, this state’s ZIP codes sit around the 75th percentile of US ZIP codes here — its highest of the nine scoring domains.

Weakest domain

Preventive Care · 8th

Weighted by residents, this state’s ZIP codes sit around the 8th percentile of US ZIP codes here — its lowest of the nine scoring domains.

Chronic Disease Burden75
Climate / Disaster Risk71
Disability66
Healthcare Access64
Mental Health64
Environmental Hazard59
Social Need / SDOH51
Risk Behavior51
Preventive Care8

Read each bar as a national percentile from 0 to 100. The dark line marks the national median: a bar past it means Alaska's ZIP codes typically place above most ZIP codes in the country on that domain. A domain Alaska cannot place honestly is shown greyed as "Not enough data" rather than given a number.

Each figure is the population-weighted average of this state's ZIP codes' standing on that domain, compared with the ZIP codes measured across all nine scoring domains — not with all US ZIP codes. A ZIP code counts toward a domain only if it carries enough measured data on it and enough of Alaska's residents live in the ZIP codes that do; the rest are held out rather than filled in from a coarser geography. Read the full method →

Why this matters

The ZipVitals Score combines nine domains of health — from chronic disease and preventive care to environmental hazard, social need, and healthcare access — into one 0–100 index for each ZIP code, computed the same way everywhere from public federal and academic data. The Alaska figures on this page are population-weighted rollups of those per-ZIP scores, so they describe Alaska's residents rather than a coarser geography relabeled as the state.

A high score describes favorable documented conditions; it is not a claim about individual residents, and it does not capture everything that shapes a community's health. Where a ZIP code scores low, that pattern reflects structural conditions — investment, environment, and access — far more than the choices of the people who live there.